God's crucible : Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215 / David Levering Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, David Levering, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

History.

Europe--Civilization--Islamic influences.

Civilization.

Civilization, Medieval.

Physical Description:

xxv, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2008]

Summary:

In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prizewinning historian re-examines what we thought we knew. Lewis reveals how cosmopolitan, Muslim al-Andalus flourished--a beacon of cooperation and tolerance between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity--while proto-Europe made virtues out of hereditary aristocracy, religious intolerance, perpetual war, and slavery.--From publisher description.

Contents:

The superpowers

"The Arabs are coming!"

"Jihad!"

The co-opted caliphate and the stumbling Jihad

The year 711

Picking up the pieces after Rome

The myth of Poitiers

The fall and rise of the Umayyads

Saving the popes

An empire of force and faith

Carolingian Jihads: Roncesvalles and Saxony

The great mosque

The first Europe, briefly

Equippose

delicate and doomed

Disequilibrium Pelayo's revenge

Knowledge transmitted, rationalism repudiated: Ibn Rushd and Musa ibn Maymun.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-448) and index.

ISBN:

9780393064728

0393064727

OCLC:

172521784